Planning In Sports — Physical Education STD 12 Commerce — Question

Combination tournaments are conducted when the matches are to be played on group basis or zonal basis. As a matter of fact, these tournaments depend on the suitability of the activity, the number of participating teams and the areas and distance from which they come to participate. For example, in case of national-level competition, it becomes difficult for all the state teams to reach the designated place for tournament. To avoid such a type of difficulty, at least four zones can be made and a tournament can be organised at a central place in each zone. After that the winner of each zone can participate at the national level. Depending upon the number of teams in each zone and the availability of time, the tournament can be organised on the basis of knock-out or league and after that at national level the tournament can also be conducted either on knock-out or league basis. Usually, the following combinations of tournaments are used.

1. Knock-out cum Knock-out.
2. League cum League.
3. Knock-out cum League.
4. League cum Knock-out.